by Jordan Bartlett Do you ever wonder why most students get excited once the school day ends? Or why they might feel relieved when they’re sick and have to leave school? The COVID-19 epidemic has not only harmed the economy, but revealed the flaws in the structure of the education system as well. The ways that students have been taught in America have been the … Continue reading Why America’s Education System is Broken
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This podcast and accompanying art was created by students at North Springs High School in Sandy Springs, GA. Art by Harmony Hines, Vonyeah Malone and Brooklynn Thompson. This podcast features Alivia Forte, Gianni Cooper, and Cray Brown interviewing Jada May and others. Published as a joint venture with North Springs, Vox, and Sandy Springs Together. Continue reading Vox Podcast: Does Smoking Weed Impact Teenager’s Mental Health
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Story and art by: Sophia Rios A prominent issue within schools, especially in these times, is nicotine/drug consumption. According to drugabusestatistics.org, about 50% of teens in general have abused a drug by twelfth grade. Questions such as the reasoning behind why, when, and how are commonly asked when students, teachers and peers try to figure out the current nicotine epidemic. This begs the question, how … Continue reading Teen Vaping in Schools: An Academic Epidemic
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By Eliza Peddi Imagine: One day you go to school on a day like any other. You go to your classes, hang out with friends, and stay for a club. But unlike any other day before, one of your friends confesses to you that they were the victim of unwanted sexual contact. If you were in that situation, what would you do? Be angry that … Continue reading Sexual Violence in Schools
By Eliza Peddi When Covid-19 shut down the world in 2020 everyone assumed that things would be back to normal in a few weeks. Now it’s 2022 and we know that wasn’t the case. Covid-19 disrupted many things, like jobs, schools, and even our personal lives. One of the more unknown things was how the movie industry was affected. Today I will be discussing how … Continue reading How Covid-19 Backtracked the Movie Industry
By Mairen E. Brown I want to be a mother. I have many reservations when it comes to having children. There are two reasons for this: fear for the lives and experiences of my future Black children, and fear for my own health while carrying and delivering a child. Regardless of who I marry or have children with, my children will be Black. I am … Continue reading Black Women Are Dying
By: Mairen Brown, Eliza Peddi, and Evyn Firestone On August 31st, the following email was sent out by the school to parents/guardians of students regarding an airsoft gun being brought into the school. No student identities were provided. The email was sent out by Mr. Hanson, North Springs High School principal, who mentioned that the gun was a Level One Threat based on the Fulton … Continue reading Airsoft Gun in the Springs?
by Andrew Mbow in conjunction with VoxATL as part of the North Springs/Vox/Sandy Springs Together partnership. Teens are having the hardest time mentally in recent history. Teen mental health has been an issue of debate for nearly two decades now, and it doesn’t seem to be getting any less necessary to discuss. Ever since the 2020 global outbreak of COVID-19, teens’ mental health and outlook have … Continue reading MENTAL HEALTH TODAY: THE EFFECTS OF ISOLATION ON A TEEN’S DEVELOPING MIND
–by Sarah Meiselman Katheryn Kimball Mizelle, the judge of the public transportation mask mandate court case (Source: gestta.co.uk) (Source: gestta.co.uk) With vaccines and many people already having been infected, COVID-19’s power over our actions is slowly depleting. Because of this, the end to the mask mandate on public transportation was expected. The events that led up to it, however, did not play out as most … Continue reading What does the end to the mask mandate mean for the CDC?
by: Abby Simon Published in conjunction with VoxATL as part of the North Springs/Vox/Sandy Springs Together partnership. Media today is filled with sad stories about the negative influence of social media, COVID-19 isolation and other modern ills on teenage mental health. Rather than focusing on these negative influences, it is helpful to recognize that there are areas of the teenage experience that positively affect teenagers and their mental … Continue reading The Bright Side of Now: Music and its Power on Mental Health
